meeting

meeting
n
1. rendezvous, tryst, assignation; confrontation, coming together, encounter, congress.
2. presentation, introduction, reception, greeting, welcome, salutation.
3. combat, battle, skirmish, conflict; fight, contest, duel, bout, feud, Sl. scrap, joust, tilt; clash, contention, struggle; scuffle, tussle, brawl, fray, affray; colli- sion, engagement, rencounter.
4. assembly, congregation, gathering, get-together; convention, congress, conclave, conference, parley, discussion; council, committee, synod, U.S. caucus.
5. assemblage, group, body, company, flock, bevy; concourse, throng, crowd, mob.
6. junction, union, association, conjugation, conjunction, conjuncture, confluence; convergence, concentration; intersection, connection; cohesion, coherence, adhesion, adherence.

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